What are the odds?

What are the odds, that we pray for rain all spring and summer, only to get nothing.  Nada, ziltch, not a drop, absolutely nuttin. We arrive at our fall season, continuing to pray for rain and what do we get?  Nuttin', unless it's a day that I want to take the fam out to get a family pic, lol!!!!  I want that elusive, glorious golden hour but it just ain't happenin' with the cloudiness we've had lately.

The great thing about it though... this is cocoa drinkin' weather and that my friends, is a glorious thing!  We don't normally get to wear sweaters here until January 31st and we pack them back up around Feb 2, haha!  It actually feels like Christmas here in the hill country :)  Enjoy whatever weather you are having today, give glory to God for it ALL!  Oh, and have some cocoa with the fam and don't take ANYTHING for granted, we have a lot to be thankful for!

Marble Falls, TX: Pilibosian Family

This session is sorta kinda top secret, so I've only been cleared to post one for the blog and after Christmas cards go out, the rest may come then ;)  Let's just say this family has to be the most real, down to earth crew I've photographed yet!  What fun!  I just LOVE to laugh and they had me ROLLING!  Yes, ROFL would be a good term to insert here.  Really, I'm NOT just saying that!

They own Treadworks Tire and Auto in Horseshoe Bay and since some of what we did is for the biz, I MIGHT get to share those :)  At least we can get a sneak peek right?

Anyhoo, they TOTALLY  rock, so if you need tires???  GO THERE!!!

Marble Falls, TX; Courtney and Seth ~ engagement

It's not often I get to do an engagement session with such a FUN family!  Courtney, Seth and Payton had me giggling the whole time we were shooting!  Payton... a FULL-OF-LIFE little boy, FULL-OF-KISSES bundle of energy; Courtney... soft, sweet, STUNNING, a smile that could blast away a gray cloudy sky in seconds; Seth... just as full of energy as his son, hunter extraordinare, strong and the daddy of ALL daddy's :D

Courtney, Seth... I can't WAIT to see you in November!!!!

Finally Fall and a Few of My Own....

It feels like an eternity since I shot anything for myself and blogged anything for myself.  I've missed my photog walks.  The weather here has been so horrrid, dry and crackly dead that I have been rather amiss in my desire to even enter the abyss know as "Texas Summer".

We have finally gotten some drenching, refreshing rain and along with it, some glorious temps!  It's finally fall :D

One of my favorite things about this time of year is our local pumpkin patch, "Sweet Berry Farm".  This is a simply glorious place to do family photos.  In the fall, they have beautiful patches of zinnias to pick, pumpkins to buy and paint, haystacks and goats, and the fav.... face painting!  My daughter enjoys this job and does a fabulous job.  She and the other facepainters she works with get to paint each other to show off their talents to the hundreds of parents and children that visit.

I blogged about one of my all time favorite designs Hannah showed up with one year, here.  Today she came home with some asian symbols and I just had to take some pics :)  Finally!  I shot something for me and actually blogged it the same day!!!  Shock of all shocks, I know.  It sure feels good :D

(Courage, Love, Dream)

Marriott Resort, Horseshoe Bay, TX; Little Miss L and her family, The Coles

One of the greatest joys I have is to meet new people.  FABULOUS people :D  People, that I feel, become friends for life.  Marie and her family are just such people.  She found me (lovin' the internet) and we finally found each other, at the Marriott Resort (my mental GPS doesn't like Round-a-Bouts!).

It was a photographers dream, hazy skies, luscious surroundings, a GORGEOUSO family to photograph and with the cuteness of a two year old to boot!  Life is great! :D  Of course, here in good ole Texas, hazy equals humidity and we felt it (sweat just goes where sweat just shouldn't go sometimes) :(  Little Miss L wasn't none to happy about it either, lol!  The goal; to capture the previously unattainable smile of Miss L (and some of the family too, lol).  She played coy every which way but we finally got a peek of that adorable personality.

It was a blast to meet ALL of you (yep, grans came too :).  What lovely assistants you were and I loved hearing the fascinating details of how the resort came to be and the hundreds of rose bushes that bloomed there many years ago.

Marie... GURL, you give the BEST hugs!!!  SOOO glad we found each other :D

We actually shot inside the putting green at the resort.  OH MY!  Was it ever lush and vibrant!

I got there early to scope things out (soooo glad I did, totally enjoyable!) and the minute they got there, I was greeted with a MONSTER hug!  I LOVED it!!!!

She really is soooo darn cute isn't she?!?!?!

She decided she was done, even though we had hardly begun, lol!  Little did she know that she had actually placed herself in the BEST spot possible!  Thanks to Dad for his HUGE efforts to get some giggles, it paid off!

I have secretly been DYING to capture an Anole Lizard with his throat fan!  YAY!!!

Hopefully I wasn't in his shot, lol!!!

Little Miss L wasn't too sure about these guys.  They were stunning though!

Aren't they just a beautiful family?!?!

It was such an honor to meet you all, I had a wonderful time!  I hope to hug your necks again very soon :)

Horseshoe Bay, TX: Means Family (mini-reunion)

I love those moments when you just KNOW God has dipped His hand into the kettle of time, sprinkled in a few festive ingredients, stirred a little, simmered and tasted His amazing creation.  The fragrance of His sovereignty is a powerful thing and I love relishing it.

It was by His design that this session came to fruition.  A friend of a friend, of a friend, the right place, the perfectly right time and voila!  A gorgeous family, amazing grans (one of which is in military school and was actually able to be there!), a blast of a grandma, and a view to die for!  What a scrumptious combination!